Hebrew week of years is seven years. There are 70, which is 490 years.
I haven't done it in a while but when you pull up the time from the starting proclamation to the death of Christ it is 483 years.
I'm not saying its not 490 years. I'm saying that by using 'weeks', especially weeks of 7 to portray that time period, we can see that prophectic literature, especially apocalyptic literature, uses numbers in ways that are not, perhaps, as literalistic as you would have it. That's sort of big.
Your problem is you just don't want to believe.
When you tell someone it will take three days to accomplish it do you literally mean 72 hours? No.
Deal with how the Hebrews calculated time literally and figuratively.
I "don't want to believe it"? See...this is where you are very wrong. To be bluntly honest, I'd love to get on board the Dispensational wagon. It's like a wondrous fairy tale and some days I'd love nothing better than be able to believe what you guys are preaching. But the overwhelming facts are...I cannot ignore that the bible is too clear on many matters...matters that you and those like you have not been able to answer. Too many holes, too many inconsistencies. For instance:
I'm supposed to "deal with" how the Hebrews calculate time? You say that because they measure a day from sun down to sun up that that means it's not a 24 hour period. Really? You also say that you can justify, from scripture, that "day" doesn't mean 24 hour period. And yet, when others suggest the very same thing in other places, you wig out and start shaking the literal card on them. But then...literal you are not? I would suppose that if we were to take scripture truly literally, then if it said something took "72 hours", then you should read it such. Your hermeneutic locks you into that, not mine.
Make up your mind...you cannot have it both ways.
You do not seem to understand that in linguistics figurative phrases that have known literal and accepted meanings are to be understood literally.
Welll, linguistically, "figurative" means: "departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical"
So I would imagine that while something written figuratively could represent something that happens quite literally, you cannot actually change the word into something else.
It's not a coincedence that God used 7 weeks to represent a time period, rather than just saying 490. 7 represents perfection, completion, and so he was communicating that when this time period of 'weeks' had been fulfilled, the time period would be finished perfectly. The figurative language used here represented an idea beyond just a time period itself, but also the perfection of God's plan, and his sovereignty over it.
When we reach a book like Revelation, we see number usage explode with similar meaning. 7 is all over the place and you cannot ignore it. Do we suppose that every time the number 7 is listed that there are actual 7 things or people happening? Perhaps...perhaps there is a literal fulfilment to that, just as there is also 7 days of the week. But we also must recognize the vast symbolic weight behind the number showing up again and again. And 7 is hardly the only number used in scripture and in Revelation. When talking of 1000, as we do when talking about the Millennium, we must see how scripture has used it before. I've pointed these out before, but I'll mention them again. When the bible says that God owns the cattle on a 1000 hilltops, do we suppose that that's all God owns? The cows on hilltop number 1001 belong to someone else? No, of course not. The number is being used symbolically to portray God's ownership of all things. Again, the number is used when God tells his people that he will keep his covenant and steadfast love to those who love him to a thousand generations. Does that mean the next generation down the line after that is plum out of luck? No, again, the number is used symbolically. By symbolically of what? Of completeness, that's what. He owns everything, completely. His covenant faithfulness will stretch over every generation. And the 1000 years, however long they be, will see his purposes fufilled completely...be that a literal 1000 or not a literal 1000 years.